This painfully emaciated tiger is the shocking face of China's illegal trade in tiger bones.
The image of the caged animal emerged after11 Siberian tigers were found starving to death in a scandal-plagued Chinese zoo.

Thursday March 18, 2010, 12:24 pm
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At most, there are 50 individual tigers living in China today. These majestic cats are threatened by a shrinking habitat and poachers who sell their bodies for use in traditional Chinese medicine, rugs, and coats. Experts think that the South China Tiger is already extinct.